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Lion Racing

Lion racing is a simulation game where you train your lion to become the best racer! Right now the game features three different races. Jumping hasn't been implemented yet so tip: don't train jumping.

The game features music, art, races, training your lion and your lion can also become mature! I would have liked to implement the jumping feature, make performance also dependent on stamina, the ability to give your lion a name and an improved look for the racing track. Also more races of course and more dialog the give the story a better feel.

Hope you enjoy it!

It's written in java so I think it will run on all systems (at least it will run on Windows).

I like the music a lot, and the little pictures look adorable! I also liked that my lion picture changed when it grew older - nice attention to detail.

There's not much to do there though, is there? Just alternate speed training and resting, and wait for a race. The timer stopping and skipping 2 seconds after I use an action makes the feel unresponsive - at first I thought that it was just lagging a lot. A progress bar or a separate timer there might've helped. And I don't even get a message when I win a race? My lion is pretty sad about that.

The concept is fun though, and with a bit more work, you could make a cool game out of it. Oh, and: Congratulations on your first LD entry!

@tobias thanks a lot! Hahah definitely played a longer time then to see the lion grow up :) You're correct, there's not much to do besides pressing two buttons and waiting. That's because I didn't get to implement jump nor make jump or stamina affect the races so the game became smaller than intended. I KNOW, bums me too, but when you win you do get to compete in a different race, it's the only feedback for now... Thanks for the feedback, I used Thread.sleep() so the training would take some time but as the creator I didn't notice it would make the game feel unresponsive. Thanks!

I thought this was a charming little game. First off the music is nice and the concept is great. I also like the faces of the animals. I like how stamina effects training and progress in the courses.

You've said yourself that you would have liked to put in jumping training. It did need that because the races were quite tedious to watch. Some manner of input from the player during races would be good. For instance choosing at what point in the race to give your lion a boost of speed at the cost of saved stamina etc.

Overall I liked the game and it was something a bit different. Make sure you polish it up nicely in the future, there are spelling mistakes and you aren't trimming your decimal numbers to short numbers.

@starspell: the boost is a great idea and indeed I should definitely trim the numbers. I actually was thinking about changing the number to bars.
@randomelginguy: the higher the stamina you had left the higher the chance of a succesive training (full stamina 80%, 1 stamina - 20%, etc)
Thanks for playing and the feedback!

Really interesting idea, people don't typically try simulations for LD! Like the idea of lions racing a lot, the graphics are simple but cute. Wish the sounds were a little quieter though and some of the sound effects for succeeding and failing got grating after a while. Wish jumping would have been implemented too.

The music is charming, the art is nice, and the idea is good too. The implementation of the ten seconds concept doesn't help the game, because it feels more annoying than a plus. I would recommend retouching the text or display to feel more animated. Small details, like how you made the lion growl when an action is selected help a lot too.

I jumped a bit when I hear the roar at the beginning of the game because I had my speakers maxed out. Heh. I'm just a bit concerned that I have to be quick with the training since I only have 10 seconds in real time. Not saying that's a bad thing because it does add a little challenge. Nice work!

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